Editing St. John, Washington (section)

==History==
[[File:1890 St. John, Washington.jpeg|left|upright|thumb|St. John, 1890]]
St. John was founded and named in the late 1880s for settler E.T. St. John.<ref>{{cite book|last=Meany|first=Edmond S.|title=Origin of Washington geographic names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027074981;view=1up;seq=268|year=1923|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=252}}</ref>  St. John was officially incorporated on March 10, 1904.<ref>[http://www.mrsc.org/library/inctable.aspx Cities and Towns, State of Washington - Dates of Incorporation, Disincorporation, and Changes of Classification<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126032207/http://www.mrsc.org/library/inctable.aspx |date=November 26, 2013}}</ref>

E.T. St. John was Edward Talbert St. John (1812–1894). Edward was the son of Pierce St. John and Mary Talbot/Talbert. Before making his way to Whitman County, Washington he abandoned his family in Indiana around 1845. He seems to have wandered around before settling in Whitman and founding the town of St. John.<ref>[https://stjohngenealogy.com/getperson.php?personID=I11259&tree=OSA0001 The St. John Genealogy & DNA Project]</ref>